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Time crunch coming soon

2/29/2012

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Looking upstream @ Roaring Run
(Leap Year!) Unlike the 1%, most of us have to make a living. It’s almost time for me to have to spend way too many hours cranking out t shirt designs for the summer festival season. Realistically, it’s a relatively innocuous way to make a living, but that doesn’t keep me from griping about having to put down the paintbrush and pick up my graphic artist costume. I wish something I love to do actually made money – all my other interests are also noteworthy for being not very lucrative: gardening, farming, being an amateur naturalist. Do investment bankers love thinking about money? Perhaps everyone dislikes what they have to do for money. Maybe if someone was standing at the studio door, tapping their foot and waiting for me to finish a painting so they could pay me for it, I wouldn’t want to do that either? I AM awfully contrary.

This week’s piece is several months old; I did this on deadline for a RACC auction (that’s Rockbridge Area Conservation Council). I did enjoy painting this, so maybe that disproves my worry of the previous paragraph. Actually, I had in mind donating another painting entirely, but that was not going well at all, and after spending weeks trying to make it work, in frustration I turned to this one, to take out my frustrations on it. After just a few hours, I knew it was better than the one I’d been working on for so long. So Be It.
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More landscapes!

2/24/2012

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This is my house from the end of the road. A beautiful fall day.
These are starting to seem more like a habit than a warm-up. I might have enough for a show by summer. But it’s almost time to start the money-making season again, so who knows how much I’ll get done?

​I have about 8 paintings going right now, I hope I get them finished before the summer busy season. Plus the goat kids will be here in about 3 weeks. That’s always a distraction. Well, I can always post pictures of cavorting kids instead of paintings. That might be more interesting anyway.
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Winter weather at last

2/15/2012

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frosty crow
Well, this past week we finally had some “normal” winter weather: teens at night, 40 mph winds, and a little frost. The plastic crow that Cindy gave me years ago got a heavy coating of frost one morning as we went from warm and wet to cold and windy.
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In honor of the cold and dismal weather, I present you this week with a view from my window to the west, a view of one of the willows and my neighbors cows on a cloudy day.
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willow in winter
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Other work

2/8/2012

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I realized as we were working on the website that it is titled “Paintings and Other Work”, and I don’t have anything other than paintings in my online galleries. I will try to rectify that soon.

​In the meantime, here’s an image of a little clay sculpture I did a couple of years ago. This is one of the few clay sculptures on which the glazes turned out like I expected. I have a lot of trouble with ceramic glaze, it’s not WYSIWYG. I’ve kind of given up trying to glaze my clay pieces and now I’m just painting them.
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Springlike February

2/1/2012

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early morning from Green Hill
Ironically, I was hoping for nasty winter weather, because it’s hard for me to be inside on a beautiful day like today. A bad day in the woods is better than a good day most anywhere else, even in the studio.

​Perhaps the unusually warm weather has been influencing my choice of subjects as I continue to turn out landscapes. I have maybe six or seven paintings going right now, and only one is a winter scene. The others are a riot of green or bright fall colors. This is one of the latter.
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    Jennifer Cox is an artist working in Rockbridge County, VA. She shows her work regionally, sometimes nationally, but not that often. She works in virtual isolation, so if you want to leave a comment, please do! Just try to be kind.

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